Delegations pledge to leave for talks in Kuwait

Members of Yemeni factions who had stayed in the capital Sanaa two days past the start date of United Nations-backed peace talks announced they would travel to the negotiations in Kuwait on Wednesday, saving the process from impending collapse.

"We will be leaving tomorrow afternoon," Mahdi Al Mushat, a representative of the Houthis, wrote on his Facebook page.

"We confirm that we will leave for Kuwait, carrying all the worries, wounds, aspirations and hopes of the great Yemeni people," Yahya Duwaid, a representative of the ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, wrote on his account.

Envoys from Yemen's Houthi movement and Saleh's party had refused to talk peace.

But concerted pressure from regional and international diplomats has succeeded in bringing the factions to the table.